Common Sense Rules

No one can be charged a fee to join any forum or view any
web file on this service. If you have been charged, contact
http://climber.org/contact/admin to complain.
No one can use anything posted on Climber.Org message board (web forum) or other
web pages for profit, nor can they copy it to a place where
profit is possible. Don't plagiarize!

NO COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION! Assume your post
will be archived on the web and generally visible to the public.
You are personally liable for copyright violations
based on your posts. We (the website operators) are like the
phone company... no prior control of content, no liability. If you
knowingly post copyrighted material without authorization and there
are serious complaints, you may be banned.

COMMERCIAL CONTENT IS SOMETIMES OK! If you know of a good climbing
related website, if you know of a good guide service, if you see a
good climbing movie or book, if you know of a store with a good gear
sale, feel free to post ON THE APPROPRIATE FORUM. Don't post about
South American websites on the Rockies forum, and don't treat any
message board as free advertising to rake in the bucks. We're about sharing
information, and some climbing-related stuff involves money, but
forum moderators have the right to modify this general permission to
post based on their experience. If you abuse it, you lose it.

Deliberate false posts or off-topic posts may get you moderated or
banned. Don't expect a lot of warnings, and don't
expect to be reinstated. The forum moderators decide if you are beyond
hope or if you have been rehabilitated, but will usually respond to public
opinion. If you feel abused, contact us at
http://climber.org/contact/abuse

Using a fake name or multiple names to avoid posting limits and/or
forum topic restrictions on who can subscribe will get you removed
permanently. No warnings are required. This does NOT include posting
for someone else when they have asked you to, and mistakes by the
forum moderators will be corrected by an apology on the list. If you feel
abused, contact http://climber.org/contact/abuse

We don't give out any information about you beyond what is visible in
your posts and your profile (the roster page
and the web forum profile)!
You must provide a working email address when you register,
but that address is ONLY used to help administer your subscription.
It will NEVER be released, at least not on purpose. We will never add subscription information to
posts. If forum moderators or other officials violate this policy intentionally,
contact http://climber.org/contact/abuse and they will be removed.

If you'd like us to put your picture and contact information and
other stuff (like where you climb, mailing address, email, fax,
your home page URL, where you climb, what kind of climbing you do,
etc), send email to http://climber.org/contact/roster
or fill out http://climber.org/roster/entry.html - you are free
to supply as much or as little contact information as you want.
Information about you that you consider personal or private shouldn't
be sent to the roster. The intent of the roster is to publish data
about users of climber.org. You won't get in this roster just by
registering or posting on a message board.

Trip announcements and trip reports are very important! There are
both message boards and dedicated web pages for these items.
If you post an announcement or a report on one of the geographic
area discussion forums, it MAY show up on the matching trips or reports page.
You can make sure it does by CCing the tripmaster or sending
email via http://climber.org/contact/tripmaster
Trip leaders should fill out http://climber.org/roster/entry.html
or send contact info to http://climber.org/contact/roster
so a link can be provided from their trip announcements.

What is Climber.Org? It's a domain name registered by Steve Eckert
and dedicated to the free exchange of information between peak
climbers everywhere. Steve set up the first crude (homebrew BBS)
version of such a service in 1993, the first climber's email list
in 1994, and it's been growing slowly ever since. Aaron Schuman
built a remarkably informative website with trip reports and links
to useful resources. The Colorado Mountain Club is a resource-sharing
supporter since 1998, helping broaden the subscriber base and the
geographic area covered by our service. The American Alpine Club
joined us in 1999. If you know of other groups that would like to
join us, or if you want to contribute your own efforts and ideas,
please send details to http://climber.org/contact/admin